Dear Physics Community,

How to do it – containment of a COVID-19 outbreak in a South Korean call center.

Announcements

• Pre-registration this year.
• Undergraduate office hours Wednesday 4-5 pm, on zoom, “What do you expect from your academic advisor?”

Physics Department

A hundred years ago – the Great Debate about whether the Milky Way was the whole universe and the “nebulae” were gas clouds inside it or the nebulae were really outside the Milky way and are “island universes” that we now call galaxies.

Rai and LIGO – last year, Mike Sipser, Dean of Science, produced a series of short videos about science at MIT.  This one features Rai Weiss, talking about how he came to LIGO. Nergis, Scott, and Matt all make appearances. Music from Sate, very classy.

Los Endos

Several people wrote asking if the US had something like the Russian Losharik spy sub.  Adm. Rickover, as a personal project, built NR-1, which even had wheels so it could drive around on the bottom.  If you are really interested, there is a book, “Dark Waters” written by a former crew member.